Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap
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Re: Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap
#22So they are a holographic augmented reality company?
From their site:
>Imagine being able to generate images indistinguishable from real objects and then being able to place those images seamlessly into the real world.
Sounds like you generate a hologram anywhere. And project it into the real world. Think Star Trek holodeck, but everywhere, or anywhere from what they are selling. And the holograms they're projecting would be almost indistinguishable from other objects (I highly doubt that honestly, subsurface reflection takes A LOT of processor horse power with 1 view alone n).
It will be interesting to see what they cook up.
Re: Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap
#23"I sometimes feel that the creative minds who make games have done about as much as is possible in two dimensions. It’s hard to imagine how the current crop of games, for example, could be more finely tuned to deliver that particular kind of entertainment."
Well PCs powerful enough for proper amount of voxels would let us do interesting things. Dwarf Fortress with a voxel-based high-res graphics could be interesting.
Re: Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap
#24MagicLeap is so secretive that it looks like their eye projecting tech. is far from being ready
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#25Is the blog down? I only see a picture of a submarine hovering above a street!
Re: Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap
#26That's cool and all, but this has got to be one of the worst company websites I've seen recently. I get that they're stealthy, but this doesn't even build any interest. It was only until I clicked "Wizards Wanted" (yes, I get it. Magic.) that I sort of got an answer. Edit: Actually, the Developers section has some more information. But my point still stands.
And that section is HUGE for a company that appears to be a startup. I don't know if they just have a wad of cash and are on a hiring frenzy, or if they already have a large staff but no products commercially available. Not that either answer would be a deal-killer, but I just have no idea what is really going on here, aside from R&D in the virtual space.
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#27Still can't figure out what the heck this company does. Guess it plans to sell hype.
Augmented reality - hardware and software. Kinda like Google Glass, except it draws realistic-looking stuff in your face that fits seamlessly with what you can see in the real world.
(Source: if you read EVERY page on their mysterious web site, you can eventually suss it out)
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#28OMG. I can think of no stronger endorsement of a technology. take my money NOW
... but, uh, what is the technology? What are you giving your money for? The website is pretty mystifying.
They will basically replace customer's eyeballs with a couple of optical fibers wired directly into the visual regions of the brain. (just kidding)
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#29I literally have no clue what Magic Leap does after reading through a few pages on their site. It's pretty absurd IMO to have a site like this that says so much but says so little. Honestly, why bother at this point?
eye projecting tech, THEY KIND OF WANT TO REPLACE OCULUS VR BY A COMPLETELY NEW VR TECH, where u'll see an elephant in times square because it'll be projected to you eye from somewhere, stuff like that, VR IN REALITY
Re: Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap
#30That's cool and all, but this has got to be one of the worst company websites I've seen recently. I get that they're stealthy, but this doesn't even build any interest. It was only until I clicked "Wizards Wanted" (yes, I get it. Magic.) that I sort of got an answer. Edit: Actually, the Developers section has some more information. But my point still stands.
I had no idea what the company does until I bailed from their site and read a comment here. Yes, I could have dug deeper, like the person posting that comment did (thanks), but damn, gimme a reason . And no, having $CELEBRITY in your company is not enough reason. Two utilitarian sentences on what your thing is, and then all the literate prose you can produce. But gimme those two sentences.
Give you a reason for what? You're all acting like this company owes you an explanation of what it does.